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title: ADG Workshop 2022 Review
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author: Ganesan Narayanasamy
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tags:
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- openpower
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- adg
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- academic
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- workshop
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date: 2022-12-05
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Since its founding in 2013, OpenPOWER Foundation membership has grown to more than 300+ members, including over 100 academic members; the latter formed the Academic Bird of a Feather (BoF) group.
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This group has run several workshops worldwide enabling students, professors and developers in chip development to AI, hybrid cloud, and big data solutions.
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The ADG group hosted its 8th workshop at the SC22 conference in Dallas on Nov 12th 2022.
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{{< image src="blog/adgworkshop22-image1.jpg" >}}
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During a packed one day event, presenters from academia and industry examined progress and opportunities to leverage OpenPOWER technology.
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The workshop’s primary goals, say organizers, were to facilitate networking and improve technical knowledge of ADG members on relevant OpenPOWER capabilities.
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The event also provided a platform for commercial OpenPOWER members to explore opportunities for collaboration with ADG members.
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Workshop conveners included Prof Dr Sameer Shende (Research Professor and Performance Lab Director at University of Oregon), Ganesan Narayanasamy (OpenPOWER Academia BoF Chair).
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{{< image src="blog/adgworkshop22-image2.jpg" >}}
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Representatives from IBM, University of Oregon, Virginia Tech, Oregon State University, UT Dallas, Werner Enterprises, Ohio State University, Object Automation System Solutions, NJIT,
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Intel, X-Scale Solutions, TU-DELFT, University of Michigan and many more discussed their contributions to the OpenPOWER ecosystem.
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The presentations coverered a range of topics, including POWER processor architecture, performance engineering, open source base board management controller, enterprise AI solutions,
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distributed deep learning, along with development and scalability of application for AI and HPC.
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There was even a special session about OpenPOWER Hub, with two Hub providers, the University of Oregon and Oregon State Unviersity, showcased how students,
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researchers and developers can get access to the hub and collaborate on developing applications using the POWER platform.
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All of the presentations as well as recorded talks may be downloaded from our event page.
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[OpenPOWER Academic BoF Workshop Event Page](/events/adgsc22/)
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OpenPOWER is a member driven ecosystem, where one can consume, contribute, and collaborate to develop a complete secure open platform.
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As summarized by Dr Sameer Shende, “_Member companies are enabled to customize POWER processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs.
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These innovations include development of custom systems and processor for special super computers, or advanced hardware technology exploitation._”
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{{< image src="blog/adgworkshop22-image3.jpg" >}}
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According to the participants, the workshop showcased ADG and several participants interest in the rapidly expanding OpenPOWER ecosystem and their intention to play a visible role.
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